Sarah Forbes Bonetta’s Brighton story, from royal patronage and public spectacle to marriage, family and Black history in Victorian Britain
Read about Monica Lewin, a pioneering surgeon with a Brighton link, and her place in Black medical history and local community memory.
Explore Olaudah Equiano’s story and the links between his abolition work, Black presence in Britain and Brighton’s anti slavery networks.
Discover Bob Marley’s Brighton connection and the place of reggae, sound systems and Black music in the city’s cultural history.
Explore how Brighton’s past was linked to slavery, wealth and empire through local people, places and historical records that reveal these legacies.
John Agard, Queen's Gold Medal poet and GCSE set text author, lives in Lewes, Sussex. Explore his Guyanese roots and his deep Brighton connections.
Grace Nichols, Commonwealth Poetry Prize winner, has lived in Lewes near Brighton since 1977. Explore her Guyanese roots and Sussex literary legacy.
Listen to the story of Princess Aida Desta, a senior Ethiopian royal figure whose life and exile connect to wider Black and minority histories.
Read about the early life of Nobel Prize winning author Rabindranath Tagore. Learn about his time living in Hove and his studies on Ship Street in Brighton.
ead how Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani of Hawaiʻi lived in Hove while preparing for a future changed by the fall of the Hawaiian monarchy.